Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
JAMES MADISONThe purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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